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If You Like Eric Larson

Erik Larson has been credited with helping to stimulate an entire subgenre of the publishing industry -- Narrative Nonfiction, specifically in the areas of History Writing and True Crime. Try these Read-alikes as recommended by Bethany M. Latham in NoveList.

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  • Vienna, 1814

    How the Conquerors of Napoleon Made Love, War, and Peace at the Congress of Vienna

    King, David, 1970-
    BookNew York : Harmony Books, c2008. — 940.2714 KING
  • Finding Atlantis

    a True Story of Genius, Madness and An Extraordinary Quest for a Lost World

    King, David, 1970-
    BookNew York : Harmony Books, c2005. — 001.94 KING
  • BookNew York : Crown Publishers, c2002. — 910.452 DASH
  • Satan's Circus

    Murder, Vice, Police Corruption, and New York's Trial of the Century

    Dash, Mike
    BookNew York : Crown Publishers, c2007. — 364.1323 DASH
  • The Beautiful Cigar Girl

    Mary Rogers, Edgar Allan Poe, and the Invention of Murder

    Stashower, Daniel
    BookNew York : Dutton, c2006. — 813.3 STASHOW
  • BookNew York : Anchor Books, 1997. — 917.9804 MCCANDL KRAKAUE
  • Into Thin Air

    a Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster

    Krakauer, Jon
    BookNew York : Villard, c1997. — 796.522 KRAKAUE
  • The Professor and the Madman

    a Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary

    Winchester, Simon
    BookNew York : HarperCollins Publishers, c1998. — 423 WINCHES
  • The Man Who Loved China

    The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom

    Winchester, Simon
    BookNew York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 2008. — 509.2 NEEDHAM WINCHES